Business Development Lead
Role Summary
As a business development leader at Ulvetanna, you will formulate the company’s strategy, determine the best uses for ZKPs, and be the main point of contact with teams developing ZK networks and products in need of acceleration. Tasks include creating presentations for clients and investors, negotiating contracts, identifying business opportunities, projecting revenues and costs of projects. You will be responsible for a large part of the operational side of a small startup, which will require switching between tasks, as well as recruiting and hiring for additional positions.
Necessary Qualifications
- A deep passion for technology, especially decentralized technology
- Strong understanding of the web3 ecosystem
- Ability to work with engineers and communicate business requirements
- Ability to speak publicly at industry panels and conferences
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of zero-knowledge cryptography and its application
- Familiarity with the ecosystem of rollups, bridges, and other ZK products
- Experience working at an early-stage company
- Experience managing a team
- A strong network of connections in the web3 industry
Cryptographic Software Engineer
Role Summary
As a cryptographic software engineer at Ulvetanna, you will contribute to internal and open-source zk-SNARK proving codebases, analyze their performance, and propose and implement optimizations. Tasks may include to modifying and refactoring the codebases to utilize hardware coprocessors, reading and implementing zero-knowledge cryptography research, reverse engineering high-level algorithms from open-source software and smart contracts, and designing or analyzing arithmetic constraint systems for verifiable programs. Team members work closely with the FPGA engineers to specify algorithms implemented in hardware, and with the systems software engineers to interface efficiently with hardware acceleration units.
Necessary Qualifications
- A deep passion for technology, software development, and secure computing
- Demonstrated ability to deliver software projects from inception to completion
- Understanding of algorithm design and computer architecture
- Experience writing multi-threaded, concurrent software
- Ability to think across layers of abstractions
- Mathematical aptitude, especially in linear and abstract algebra
- Experienced and well-versed in Linux, version control, scripting, and build systems
- Understanding of technology tradeoffs and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Strong knowledge of Rust and/or C++
Extra Qualifications
- Experience modifying and contributing to open-source codebases
- Experience implementing high-performance software and distributed systems
- Experience implementing compilers
- Experience implementing low-level cryptographic primitives
- Experience programming embedded systems
- Experience with computer algebra systems such as SageMath
- Understanding of mathematical and cryptographic proof techniques
- Understanding of cryptographic proof systems, zero-knowledge cryptography, elliptic
curve cryptography, and symmetric cryptography
FPGA Engineer
Role Summary
At Ulvetanna, our team of FPGA Engineers create next generation FPGA platforms to enable ZKP acceleration. FPGA Engineers work closely with cryptography and business leaders to design and deploy FPGA solutions that boost proof generation performance. You will be mandated to research, design, implement and deploy FPGA products across Ulvetanna’s data centers. You will contribute to maximizing FPGA products efficiency and performance.
Necessary Qualifications
- A deep passion for technology, software, and hardware development
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent field of study
- Experienced and well-versed in SystemVerilog
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: Hardware Architecture, RTL Coding, Simulation, Systems Integration, Hardware Validation and Testing, FPGA Synthesis, and Static Timing Analysis
- Sound understanding of technology tradeoffs, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
Extra Qualifications
- Experienced and well-versed in Linux, Python, C, Tcl, and bash
- MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent field of study
- HLS flow
- HW CI/CD flow
- Embedded Processors (ARM, RiscV) experience
- GPU or ASIC design experience
- High Speed Communication Interfaces and protocols (SerDes, PCIe, Ethernet)
- AXI-4 Stream protocol expertise
- Xilinx DSP & HBM primitives expertise
- Xilinx Versal experience
